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THE CAPITOL
February Wk II 2010
Cheekwood
Grand ole opry
RiverRed show
BRINGING NASHVILLE TO EVERYONE IN THE WAY
WE ALL LOVE IT, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL. NO MATTER WHAT YOU
LOVE ABOUT THE SOUTH, WE HAVE IT ALL.
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The Capitol Building
The Nashville skyline is filled with the spires of new
buildings. The buildings found in the Nashville skyline
blend to form a
graceful and elegant facade.
Working hand-in-hand with our customers to build their
internet business their way. The Business Park is an Internet
Service Provider that can take all of your Internet Business
ideas and make them a reality.
Redstarr Entertainment Company's
site has been created to guide and direct talent to movers
and shakers in the entertainment industry. For all your
promotional and marketing needs in the music, art and film
industries. From the promotional package to the sale of the
product. Whether you would like to link your websites to
ours, advertise your company or sell your products. Take
advantage of our energy and our concern and our wanting your
success as bad as you do.
Sandy Hardin puts her abundant energy into creating an
atmosphere of understanding and knowledge in the Music
Industry to work trying to help those at the beginning.
Years of fighting her way in the jungles of Nashville's
Music Industry has given her a unique understanding of how
to get things done.
Sandy is an accomplished artist in her own right. Known
by many in her Taking her knowledge and experience gives her
a head's up on the road to success.
Nashville-Now-Golf
Welcome to our newest member
of the Nashville-Now family. Nashville-Now-Golf is
striving to become the one source for Golf in
Nashville.
The site will work to provide our visitors with
up-to-date information about what to expect when
playing the course. A critique on each hole will be
provided. Tee times and bookings can be
scheduled from our site.
We provide course layouts and vital information needed
to help you be at the top of your game.
The
American Society of Civil Engineers has listed
the building as a
civil engineering landmark in recognition of its
innovative construction, which made unusually
extensive use of stone and was an early example of
the use of structural iron. Both the interior and
exterior are built with
limestone from a
quarry about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the site. Some
interior columns were built from single pieces of
stone, requiring massive wooden
derricks to hoist them into place.
Wrought iron, instead of wood, was used for the
roof
trusses to reduce the building's vulnerability
to fire.[4]
Strickland died five years before the building's
completion and was entombed in its northeast wall.
His son, F. W. Strickland, supervised completion of
the structure. William Strickland also designed the
Egyptian Revival style
Downtown Presbyterian Church, formerly known as
First Presbyterian Church, Nashville.
Samuel Morgan (1798-1880), chairman of the State
Building Commission overseeing the construction of
the Tennessee State Capitol, is entombed in the
southeast corner near the south entrance.
Monuments
Monuments on the Capitol grounds include statues
of two the three Tennessee residents who served as
President of the United States:
Andrew Jackson and
Andrew Johnson. The second President from
Tennessee,
James K. Polk, is buried in a tomb on the
grounds, together with his wife,
Sarah Childress Polk. Other monuments on the
grounds include the
Sgt. Alvin C. York Memorial, the Tennessee
Holocaust Commission Memorial, the
Sam Davis Memorial at the southwest corner of
the Capitol grounds, the
Sen. Edward Ward Carmack Memorial located above
the Motlow Tunnel near the south entrance, and the
Memorial to Africans during the
Middle Passage at the southwest corner of
Capitol grounds. The Charles Warterfield
Reliquary is a group of broken limestone
columns and fragments removed and saved from the
State Capitol during the mid-1950s restoration,
located near the northern belvedere on Capitol
Drive.
The Charles Warterfield
Reliquary is a group of broken limestone
columns and fragments removed and saved
from the State Capitol during the mid-1950s
restoration, located near the northern
belvedere on Capitol Drive.
The Nashville region's business environment is characterized
by a favorable geographic location, quality
workforce, lower
taxes, and growth opportunities enhanced by a diverse
economy.
Over the last decade, the Nashville area has experienced
tremendous growth across industry sectors, including the major
industries of health care, tourism, publishing and music.
High-profile businesses from across the country and the globe
have moved to the Nashville area in the past few years, from
Oreck, to Backyard Burgers, to Nissan, to the Consulate-General
of Japan.
As a service to area businesses, the Nashville Area Chamber
provides
research and data to help area businesses make sound
decisions, and advocates for
policies that positively affect the region's business
climate. Because existing and start-up companies create the
foundation of a strong economy, the Chamber has a special focus
on nurturing and supporting these businesses.
Cheekwood
SMARTER TRAVELING
:
Beware!
Visit Nashville at your own
rish. You might find yourself and your family trying to find
ways of calling it home. Our town can be addictive and cause
friction until the move here is complete. Enjoy your visit but
know of the possible problems that might occur.
Cheekwood is a privately funded 55-acre
(220,000 m2) estate on the western edge
of
Nashville, Tennessee that houses the
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art.
Formerly the residence of Nashville's Cheek family,
the 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2)
Georgian-style mansion was opened as a museum in
1960.
The house that coffee built
Christopher Cheek founded a wholesale grocery
business in Nashville in the 1880s. His son, Leslie
Cheek, joined him as a partner, and by 1915 was
president of the family-owned company. Leslie's
wife, Mabel Wood, was a member of a prominent
Clarksville family. Meanwhile, Joel Cheek,
Leslie's cousin, had developed an acclaimed blend of
coffee that was marketed through Nashville's
finest hotel, the
Maxwell House Hotel. Legend has it that
Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the blend "Good to
the last drop," which is still a registered
trademark for the product. Cheek's extended family,
including Leslie and Mabel Cheek, were investors.
In 1928, the
Postum Cereals Company (now
General Foods) purchased
Maxwell House's parent company, Cheek-Neal
Coffee, for more than $40 million.
With their income secured by the proceeds
from the sale, Leslie Cheek bought 100 acres
(0.40 km2) of what was then woodland
in West Nashville for a country estate. He hired
New York residential and landscape architect,
Bryant Fleming, and gave him control over
every detail - from landscaping to interior
furnishings.
The result was a limestone mansion and
extensive formal gardens inspired by the grand
English manors of the 18th century.
Fleming's masterpiece, Cheekwood, was completed
in 1932.
Leslie Cheek died 2 years after moving into
the mansion and Mabel Cheek and their daughter,
Huldah Cheek Sharp, lived at Cheekwood until the
1950s when it was offered as a site for a
botanical garden and art museum.
The development of the property was
spearheaded by the Exchange Club of Nashville,
the Horticultural Society of Middle Tennessee
and many other civic groups. The Nashville
Museum of Art donated its permanent collections
and proceeds from the sale of its building to
the effort. The new Cheekwood museum opened to
the public in 1960.
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Grand Ole Opry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nashville, TN – Colt Records recognized
Hardin’s talent in quite a few directions. Not only is she a
great songwriter, she’s a great artist in every sense of the
word, and quite the entertainer and host.
Every song, every word is of her road
of a long spiritual evolution and true experiences. Hardin says, “If I
speak one word that helps another soul, then I am doing good
work” She was
blessed with talent and Colt Records is happy to help her get
recognized for her contribution to society with her efforts.
Hardin is the founder and President of
Redstarr Entertainment Company, which was designed and created
to help talent all over the world. For 12 years she has
sacrificed everything to keep REC alive.
Now with Colt Records it’s time the world
knows how important Sandy Hardin’s music is in every market.
It’s fresh, it’s friendly and fun.
Age is not a factor, as a matter of fact it
only enhances the wisdom she shares with the world.
J. K. Coltrain, President Colt Records 9 Music Square West
#143 Nashville,
TN 37203
The Grand Ole Opry started out as the
WSM Barn Dance
in the new fifth-floor radio station studio of the
National Life & Accident Insurance Company
in downtown Nashville on November 28, 1925. On October 18, 1925,
management began a program featuring "Dr. Humphrey Bate and his
string quartet of old-time musicians." On November 2, WSM hired
long-time announcer and program director
George D. Hay, an enterprising pioneer
from the
National Barn Dance program at
WLS Radio in Chicago, who was also
named the most popular radio announcer in America as a result of
his radio work with both WLS in Chicago and WMC in Memphis. Hay
launched the WSM Barn Dance
with 77-year-old fiddler
Uncle Jimmy Thompson on November 28,
1925, which is celebrated as the birth date of the Grand Ole Opry.
However, Judge Hay liked the Fruit Jar
Drinkers and asked them to appear last on each show because he
wanted to always close each segment with "red hot fiddle
playing". They were the second band accepted on the "Barn
Dance", with the Crook Brothers being the first. And when the
Opry began having square dancers on the show, the Fruit Jar
Drinkers always played for them.
In 1926, Uncle Dave Macon, a Tennessee
banjo
player who had recorded several songs and toured the vaudeville
circuit, became its first real star. The name Grand Ole Opry came
about on December 10, 1927. The Barn Dance
followed NBC Radio Network's Music Appreciation Hour,
which consisted of classical music
and selections from the Grand Opera
genre. Their final piece that night featured a musical
interpretation of an onrushing railroad locomotive. In response
to this Judge Hay quipped, "Friends, the program which just came
to a close was devoted to the classics. Doctor Damrosch
told us that there is no place in the classics for realism.
However, from here on out for the next three hours, we will
present nothing but realism. It will be down to earth for the
'earthy'." He then introduced the man he dubbed the Harmonica Wizard —
DeFord Bailey
who played his classic train song "The Pan American Blues".
After Bailey's performance Hay commented, "For the past hour, we
have been listening to music taken largely from Grand Opera.
From now on we will present the 'Grand Ole Opry'". The name
stuck and has been used for the program since then.
Never a dull moment as Sandy J Hardin performs The RiveRRed
Show.
